Comment by superkuh
1 day ago
RIP all those human person made wideband low noise amplifier boards that cost $5. Now I'll have to buy a $50 minicircuits or whatever alternative with an FCC ID. Despite the fact that I'd only use the LNA for receive, it still could generate and amplifies RF not in the ham bands. So they'll certainly be banned. :\
eBay simply does not have employees with the domain/technical knowledge to decide which things actually require an FCC ID to be displayed. As such they'll just ban anything and everything re: RF, like the example above.
The FCC document from page 97 on has these tables full of extremely inaccurate ass-covering data pretending that >80% of all electronics sellers that might be effected by these new FCC rules are large firms (>1000 people) and that's simply not true. If they counted ebay sellers there'd be more human sellers than firms by far.
This sounds bad for me, a person who just purchased their first SDR yesterday. What unfortunate timing.
Are you sure LNAs will be an issue? Cause then they'd better ban transistors too, because they can actually be used as a power amplifier for transmitting!
the FCC excludes regulating equipment that doesn't have a a clock above 9kHz but ebay doesn't know what that means
The problem is that eBay employees are the judge here. Do you think they are going to have enough expert domain knowledge to know the difference? Do you think they will error on the side of banning anything RF or allow things and expose themselves to financial and legal liability?
The end result will be a ban in practice even if the meaning and spirit of the FCC regs would not. Because now eBay is the judge.